“I’m still 19,” said Osbourne in his thick Birmingham accent and halting delivery down the line from L.A.

“I was saying to (my wife) Sharon the other day, ‘Guys I know, when they get to 60, they go, ‘That’s it now. I’m done. I’m an old man.’’ I don’t wake up in the morning and go, ‘Wow, I’m 65.’ I just get on with it you know. I don’t know how a 65 year old guy’s supposed to feel? I just had a physical and my doctor’s says, ‘You’ve got the heart of a 21-year-old and I can’t believe it, nothing’s wrong.’ I’ve had a f--ing wild life believe me.”

Osbourne says these days, he “exercises a lot and takes vitamins. Living in California. If you don’t take vitamins, people think you’re an alien.’”

Otherwise, Ozzy - who’s been doing some writing for either a solo or Sabbath album - feels satisfied that he’s gone full circle with Black Sabbath in its most recent incarnation.

The group’s No.1 reunion album, 13, has exceeded all expectations with the group getting ready for a cross-Canada tour that will hit 10 cities this month as well as the famed Hollywood Bowl. This follows an immensely successful world tour last year that touched down in Toronto and Vancouver.

“Black Sabbath has always had a big following, me as well, in Canada,” said Osbourne, pointing out that 1978’s Never Say Die! was recorded in Toronto.

“We lived there for about three or four months. We’d gone up the ladder of success, we’d found out the manager was ripping us off, and we had nobody to direct us. We lost our own direction ourselves. It was a pretty sad time.”

Fast forward to 13’s release last year and the overwhelming response to both the album, which saw Sabbath pick up a Grammy in February, and tour.

“When we did the album 13 if that was going to be the last album I ever did with Black Sabbath it was okay because before in 1978 with Never Say Die! wasn’t a good time for me with Black Sabbath,” said Osbourne.

“So if we never do another thing together again, we ended on a better note. The only sad thing was that (65-year-old original Sabbath drummer) Bill Ward never played on it (due to contract issues).”

Osbourne doesn’t say that will necessarily mean there will be another Sabbath record from him, bassist Geezer Butler, 64, and guitarist Tony Iommi, 66, who was diagnosed with lymphoma in 2012 and is undergoing treatment, but he’s not ruling anything out.

“Everybody asks me if there’s going to be a follow-up to 13? And all I can say is, ‘I never say never anymore.’ I don’t want to say, ‘Yeah, we’re never going to do another album,’ because if everybody agrees and we don’t take 500 years again to make another album, I’m up for it. I wouldn’t mind doing another Sabbath album.”

Osbourne says Iommi is in good health as far as he knows and playing as strongly as ever.

“I haven’t had one of them dark phone calls so I presume he’s okay. He’s unbelievable. I mean, any of us could be diagnosed with cancer. I always think cancer means death. I didn’t know anybody who’d recovered. My wife recovered from colon cancer and that was the first person I ever knew. But he just accepts it and gets on with it. I mean it’s got to be worrying. But he’s doing fine I think, I hope. He’s unbelievable. We all know our job, we all know our craft but he’s a very talented guy. Considering on his fret hand he’s got no fingertips, he plays with prosthetic fingers at the end. I’ve often said to him, ‘How the hell do you know when you’re touching the strings?’ I don’t know. It’s amazing.”

Osbourne says the Canadian set list will be similar to what Sabbath played in 2013 with some minor changes as the group rehearses in New York before coming north with Saskatoon guitarist Reignwolf (Jordan Cook) - “I like him!” says Ozzy - as their opening act.

“Black Sabbath, we’ve such a roster, a catalogue of songs to choose from, but I don’t think I’ve ever been onstage without doing Paranoid or Iron Man or War Pigs,” he said. “I hope we’re going to do a little bit of a variation on the set.”

Two Melbourne, Australia, dates on the 13 tour were filmed for a DVD release, Gathered in Their Masses, last fall, but Osbourne didn’t know if the new Canadian shows might also be filmed.

“It’s possible. I don’t want to say yes. I don’t want to say no. I don’t know. Canada is always loyal. It’s kind of one of them countries, you leave and go ‘Wow,’ it spoils you. On my last solo tour, I got a great reaction from Canada and then when I come back to New York to do a show, it was like ‘They love my music there.’ The fans there are so f---ing hardcore.”

Next up, is a Sabbath European tour in June, with one lone Middle East date.

“We’re going to the Arab Emirates wherever the f--- that is,” he said. “I said to Sharon we’re going to have five camels and a donkey in the audience I think.”

Cracking me up to the very end of this interview Osbourne says: “I never take myself seriously you know. I’ve seen in the past bands that are so cool they don’t talk to each other, f--- that!”

The Osbournes enjoy the reality-TV highlife

MTV’s The Osbournes seems like such a long time ago in the world of reality TV.

But the members of Ozzy Osbourne’s family featured on that hit show have all gone on to success in other TV endeavours. Wife Sharon is a co-host on The Talk and daughter Kelly is a panelist on E!’s Fashion Police and works red carpet events.

And last year, his son Jack - diagnosed with relapsing-remitting MS in 2012 - competed on Dancing with The Stars and placed an impressive third.

“I was freaked out ‘cause he said to me, ‘Dad I want to do Dancing with The Stars,’” said Ozzy. “I said, ‘You’ve got two f---ing left feet! ’ He shocked the crap out of me. Jack’s one of these guys, once he’s got something on, he’ll do it properly. He shocked us all. Mind you had he not come third he’d never heard the last of it from his sister Kelly ‘cause she came third (in 2009 on DWTS).

“It’s unbelievable how my kids turned out considering I’m a lunatic of a father.”

“I’m still 19,” said Osbourne in his thick Birmingham accent and halting delivery down the line from L.A.

“I was saying to (my wife) Sharon the other day, ‘Guys I know, when they get to 60, they go, ‘That’s it now. I’m done. I’m an old man.’’ I don’t wake up in the morning and go, ‘Wow, I’m 65.’ I just get on with it you know. I don’t know how a 65 year old guy’s supposed to feel? I just had a physical and my doctor’s says, ‘You’ve got the heart of a 21-year-old and I can’t believe it, nothing’s wrong.’ I’ve had a f--ing wild life believe me.”

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